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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Next appointment',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2018/07/14.jpg" alt="The parking lot outside the dentists&apos; office" class="framed-centred-image" width="649" height="480"/>
<section id="dental">
	<h2>Dental work</h2>
	<p>
		My next appointment will be on August twenty-second.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I agree we can&apos;t eliminate death.
			There&apos;ll always be <strong>*something*</strong> that can kill us.
			For example, if we were launched into the sun, there&apos;s no way our bodies will ever be able to withstand the fusion reaction going on there.
			Starvation and dehydration will always be a concern as well.
			I think we can eliminate ageing though.
			Or, we could if we&apos;d work together instead of having patent wars and trying to keep ideas from being shared and improved.
			I&apos;d love to live forever, but I&apos;ll be long dead before humanity&apos;s willing to work together instead of competing.
			As for telepathy ... I don&apos;t think it&apos;s possible in the sci-fi sense.
			Brain waves aren&apos;t going to transmit thought the air or anything.
			But certain animals can detect magnetic lines.
			There&apos;s a slim chance thought could be transmitted via magnetic interference or radio waves, though I don&apos;t see why we&apos;d evolve in that direction.
			It&apos;d be useful maybe, but evolution tends to go in directions in which the opposite option is fatal.
			We&apos;re not going to die without telepathy-like communication, so we&apos;re therefore not likely to develop telepathy-like communication.
			Transcending the physical realm too ... transcend to what?
			As far as we know, the physical realm&apos;s all we have.
			There probably isn&apos;t something else.
		</p>
		<p>
			You make a good point about messing with our own evolution.
			We could do it.
			We honestly could.
			But we&apos;d not be what we are now any more, which would sort of be the point.
			Would we be better?
			Worse?
			It depends on who&apos;s deciding what to change, I guess.
			Future generations might be mindless puppets for overlords that fund the experiments, for example.
			I agree the questions you mentioned aren&apos;t solvable beyond a doubt, either.
			I have guesses about all three, as do probably most people, but we&apos;ll ever have an absolute answer.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
END
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